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Around 17,000 patients have received their Covid vaccine at Newbury Racecourse after just one month An army of volunteers are on hand to help combat coronavirus Geraldine Gardner ); THE Vaccination Centre at Newbury Racecourse has been open a month. It first opened its doors on January 14 and in that time has vaccinated nearly 17,000 West Berkshire residents. The centre is a collaboration between nine surgeries – Burdwood, Thatcham Medical Practice, Falklands, Eastfield, Strawberry Hill, Downland, Kintbury and Woolton Hill, Hungerford and Lambourn – and the vaccines take place in the Grandstand area. When the hub was first announced the nine surgeries put out an appeal for volunteers to help run the large-scale vaccination programme and I decided to sign up and do my bit. ....